Elke Krystufek

Austrian artist born in 1970. I saw one of her works in Paris and I really like her stuff.

Eva Hesse

There is something in the fragility, complexity, and materiality of her work that I find to be fascinating and grounding.

Brad Neely

Brad Neely is a comic book artist from Fort Smith, Arkansas. His work includes the series "Creased Comics" and the unauthorized spoof of Harry Potter called Wizard People, Dear Readers. The latter consists of an alternate soundtrack of narration in the style of a book on tape, which viewers can play over the muted movie.

Neely is the creator of "Cox & Combes' Washington."

Aside from occasional one-off videos, he also has three series: "I Am Baby Cakes", "The Professor Brothers" and "China, Illinois".

"Mark 'Baby' Cakes, a socially inept, yet wise about life, 30-year-old playboy man-baby."

"The Professor Brothers" follows the professional and personal misadventures of Frank and Steve Smith, two brother professors at a local college.

He has also produced "America Now", a series of musical shorts for Adult Swim and he was a consultant for South Park during the second half of season eleven.

Michel Gondry

Michel Gondry is a French filmmaker born in Versailles, France. He made 7 of Björk's music videos, created "bullet time" for a vodka commercial (later used in the Matrix), and he directed Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Science of Sleep. I would say that Gondry is a master of sonography who uses the camera and what's in front of it to create many "effects" that are just tricking our eyes via perspective and well made scenery. Below is an example from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

DJ Shadow

DJ Shadow (born Joshua Davis, June 29, 1972)^[1] is an American music producer, DJ and songwriter. He is considered a prominent figure in the development of instrumental hip hop and first gained notice with the release of his highly acclaimed debut album Endtroducing....., which was constructed entirely from samples. He has an exceptionally large record collection, with over 60,000 records.^[2]

(from wikipedia.org)

DJ shadow was probably one of the first things I listened to that made me really conscious of samples in music. I am always especially excited when something non-hip-hop that I listen to gets mixed in and I notice. It's like my little secret with the artist. Well, DJ Shadow used Björk...and of course it was awesome.

Amanda Krugliak

I just wanted to post a blog of some of my TMP 3 professor's work because I really love it and more people should see it if they haven't. She's a performance artist who taught me a lot of things about life & time.

Sadie Benning

Sadie Benning grew up in Milwaukee. Her father was a famous filmmaker and he gave her a Fisher Price Pixelvision camera. As a 15 year old girl in the 90s, she made crappy black and white videos, one of which was called "If Every Girl Had a Diary." We watched it in class and it was awesome. Sadly, I cannot find it on the internet.

So instead I wanted to post an actual music video from the band she's in, Le Tigre. Oddly enough, I've been listening to them for 5 years but I didn't make the connection. One of my friends who also listens to Le Tigre told me...anway...here's a link to one of their videos (embedding disabled):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMK3OKkmNd0

And here is the first song I ever heard by them at the age of 16: